USB thumb drive pulled and icon left on desktop - how do, I remove it??

[Jay Ridgley]

--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: USB thumb drive pulled and icon left on desktop - how do
>     I remove    it??
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> --- On Sat, 1/17/09, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>> From: Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
>> Subject: USB thumb drive pulled and icon left on desktop - how do I 
>> remove it??
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 1:54 PM
>> Folks,
>>
>> Yes, I know, I did it wrong...
>>
>> I did a backup to a thumb drive I had inserted in a USB
>> port. After the backup task completed and without thinking clearly, I
>> simply pulled the drive out; now the icon that indicates the 4.1 GB 
>> Media is
>> mounted remains. I have tried to unmount the drive that doesn't
>> work and move it to trash and that did not work either.
>>
>> If I put the drive back in a new icon pops up and I can
>> unmount it and that one goes away. The other one just hangs around...
>>
>> Short of logging out and back in (I am not sure that will
>> work either, since a user swap left it) or restarting my system how do I
>>  go about removing this critter?
>>
>>     
> Not sure this will fix it but it's the right way to remove a
> thumb drive.
> Plug the drive back in and right click the icon selecting
> safely remove on the drop down. Do that on both icons if
> another appears on the desktop before removing the drive.
> Then remove the drive and if you are lucky both icons will
> be gone. If that doesn't work, with the drive plugged in
> try umount making sure to use the exact dev node name for
> the one you exited incorrectly.  If neither works, you need better 
> help from someone else.  HTH.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>  
>> Cheers,
>> Jay
>>
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>>
>> Jay Ridgley
>> jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
>> Registered Linux User ID - 9115
>> Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320
>>
>>
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Well, i tried what Leonard suggested above, that did not work. However, 
the following command did:

sudo umount -f <device name from less /etc/mtab> did

Thanks,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115
Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320